PRE-LIM Flashcards
Greek word
PHARMAKON - drug or medicine, spell, remedy, or poison
Egyptian term
PHARMAKI - “bestower of security”
Thoth
Patron of physicians
It is a profession concerned with ART and SCIENCE of preparing drugs.
Pharmacy
Two sources of Drugs:
Natural (nature) and Synthetic (chemical which made to be a drug)
Compounding
Combining, mixing, ingredients to create a drug
Dispensing
Giving required medicine through the prescription to the right patient
Establishment or place where drugs or medicines are sold.
Pharmacy
Process in Pharmacy:
Collection, identification, purification, isolation, synthesis, standardization, and quality control
Expert on drugs
Pharmacist
A chemical compound that may be used on or administered to human or animals as an aid in the diagnosis, treatment, or prevention of diseases or other abnormal conditions, to relieve pain or suffering or to control or improve any physiological or pathologic condition.
Drugs
A period where people sought healing from religion.
Pre-historic Pharmacy
Shamans
Faith healers
Sushruta Samhita
Earliest known compilation of medicinal substances
Jewel of the ancient Mesopotamia
Babylon
2 types of Medical Practitioner
Asipu - magical healer
Asu - empirical healer
Asipu
Spells and magical stones rather tan from plant materials
Asu
Large collection of drugs and develop them into several dosage forms
Provides the oldest pharmaceutical record
Babylon
Oldest prescription
Sumerian Mud Tablet
Father of medicine
Hippocrates
Four founders of Chinese Medicine
Shen Nung
Fu Hsi/ Hua To
Huang Tsi/ Chang Chung Ching
Pien Chiao
wrote the first Pen-Tsao (native herbal) consisting of 365 different drugs
Shen Nung
Developed the use of anesthesia
Fu Shi/ Hua To
Acupunctue
Hydrotherapy
Fu Shi/ Hua To
Hippocrates of China
HUANG TSI/CHANG CHUNG CHING
Hippocrates of China
HUANG TSI/CHANG CHUNG CHING
HUANG TSI/CHANG CHUNG CHING wrote about ___ listing of drugs, ___ ways on how to correct diseases, ___ prescription
222, 397, 113
legendary Chinese internist and surgeon who reportedly used general anesthesia for surgical procedures
Pien Chiao
Who si “Lu” and “Chao”?
Pien Chiao gave them a toxic drink which rendered them unconscious for three days, during which time he performed a gastrostomy upon them.